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Microwave Engineering Crossword Puzzle
December 2, 2012

2012 Crosswords Archive

Visit the Crossword Express website - RF CafeTake a well-deserved break and try your hand at some of these goodies. Every word in the RF Cafe crossword puzzles is specifically related to engineering, mathematics, and science. There are no generic backfill words like many other puzzles give you, so you'll never see a clue asking for the name of a movie star or a mountain on the Russia-China border.

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Microwave Engineering Crossword Puzzle for December 2, 2012 - RF Cafe


ACROSS DOWN
ACROSS
1. Configure a switch to make electrical contact
5. The "A" in ASDL
11. Pick-and-_____ automated PCB component insertion tool
15. Keyboard key
16. Morse Code for "from"
17. Electrical overstress (abbr.)
18. Chemical symbol for radium
20. The "T" in ATE
22. Chemical symbol for gallium
24. Unit of length (abbr.)
25. 4th rock from the sun
27. Chemical symbol for bromine
28. Software drafting tool (abbr.)
30. Carrier-to-noise ratio (abbr.)
31. Unit of weight (pl.)
34. Modulation technique (abbr.)
35. 1/000 of an inch
36. Entity defined in the second law of thermodynamics
38. Chemical symbol for neon
39. Use a DMM or o-scope
40. PC follower
42. Front edge of a wing (abbr.)
43. Mate to a TX
44. Chemical symbol for silver
45. Increased elapsed time before a signal begins
47. Upper frequency (abbr.)
49. Instrument for measuring current
51. Exponent that returns the original number
53. 36 in. (abbr., pl.)
54. Transportation accident investigation agency (abbr.)
56. Electromagnetic interference (abbr.)
57. Adjust a pot
59. Sound frequency in the human hearing range (abbr.)
60. European Telecommunications Standards Institute (abbr.)
61. Opposite of O.D.
62. Chemical symbol for rubidium
64. A common lamp tube gas
66. 1/000 of an amp (abbr.)
67. Common gateway interface (abbr.)
68. Chemical symbol for chromium
70. Negative temperature coefficient (abbr.)
72. English theoretical physicist who created the delta function now named after him
73. Software for circuit or system design (pl.)
74. Ratio of a mechanical drawing
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1. The "CB" in PCB (2 wds.)
2. Opposite of I.D.
3. Adjust a pot
4. Type of capacitor dielectric
5. The science of the stars
6. Yttrium Aluminum Garnet
7. Chemical symbol for mendelevium
8. BS__ - the degree held by many RF Cafe visitors
9. Type of memory
10. Enclosed volume for equipment (pl.)
11. Number of way in which a group of objects can be arranged when order matters (pl.)
12. Line of Sight (abbr.)
13. Chemical symbol for arsenic
14. Common point on a BJT curve trace graph where the extrapolated linear operating regions all intersect (2 wds.)
19. A common battery cell size
21. Signal-to-noise ratio (abbr.)
23. PC follower
24. 1E6 nanoseconds
26. Automatic Calibration System (abbr.)
27. Chemical symbol for bismuth
29. Factor of ten
32. Switch position
33. Chemical symbol for neon
35. Metric length units
37. 36 inches
39. 1000000 prefix
41. Mate to an RX
42. Chemical symbol for lanthanum
46. Agilent's EE design software (abbr.)
47. Unit of length (abbr.)
48. Unit of time (abbr.)
50. Using the moon as a passive reflector to establish a signal path; moonbounce (abbr.)
52. A measure of receiver quality (abbr.)
54. Chemical symbol for neodymium
55. Chemical symbol for bromine
58. 1/6 inch printer's measure
60. Enhanced Graphics Adapter
61. Big Blue
63. Chemical symbol for beryllium oxide
65. Negative temperature coefficient (abbr.)
67. Chemical symbol for chromium
68. Chemical symbol for chlorine
69. Chemical symbol for radium
71. Chemical symbol for calcium



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